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Primary Reading Instruction

Primary Reading Instruction. Applying What We Know. Anita L. Archer, Ph.D. Author and Consultant archerteach@aol.com. Critical Elements. Phonemic Awareness Decoding Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension And Oral Language Background Knowledge Writing. Critical Elements.

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Primary Reading Instruction

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  1. Primary Reading Instruction Applying What We Know

  2. Anita L. Archer, Ph.D. Author and Consultant archerteach@aol.com

  3. Critical Elements • Phonemic Awareness • Decoding • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension • And • Oral Language • Background Knowledge • Writing

  4. Critical Elements • Phonemic Awareness • Decoding • Fluency What Why How

  5. Phonemic Awareness - What? • The ability to hear and manipulate phonemes (sounds) within words • An auditory skill • Segmenting and blending activities have the greatest benefit to reading acquisition (National Reading Panel, 2000; Snider, 1995) • Generally, teach blending before segmenting (Lane & Pullen, 2005)

  6. Phonemic Awareness - Why? • Must be aware of phonemes within words in order to map graphemes onto phonemes. (Ehri & Roberts, 2006) • Phoneme awareness performance is a strong predictor of long-term reading and spelling success and can predict literacy performance more accurately than variables such as intelligence, vocabulary knowledge, and socioeconomic status. (Gillon, 2004) • Phonemic awareness activities in kindergarten resulted in word reading gains in first and second grade. (Foorman, Francis, Beller, Winikates, & Fletcher, 1997)

  7. Phonemic Awareness - Why • Phonemic Awareness can help students learn to read and spell. • The relationship between phonemic awareness and learning to read and spell is reciprocal: having phonemic awareness helps children learn to read and spell; learning to read and spell words by working with letter-sound relationships improves children’s phonemic awareness.

  8. Phonemic Awareness - How? • Include phonemic awareness activities in beginning reading programs for students of any age • Kindergarten: 10 - 15 minutes a day (Foorman et al, 1997) • First Grade: (First three months) 10 minutes a day incorporated into phonics instruction • Intervention: Include in program if student reads below 2nd grade level • All Elementary Grades: Incorporate into spelling instruction

  9. Phonemic Awareness - How? • Phonemic awareness activities should be:1. Few in number 2. Explicitly modeled 3. Supported by concrete materials or gestures.4. Designed to include all students.

  10. Example A • Blending Sounds into Words 1. We’re going to play a say-the-word game. I’ll say the sounds. You say the word. 2. Listen. aaaammmmm 3. What word? am 4. (Repeat with other words.) 5. (If time permits, check individual students.) (Practice: man, sat, ship, trap)

  11. Example B • Segmenting words into sounds - Smooth Segmenting 1. Put your fists together. 2. Get ready to stretch the word. 3. The word is fin. What word? fin 4. Stretch it. fffiiiiinnnn 5. Shrink it. fin 6. (If time permits, check individual students.) (Practice: sit, list, fish, trip)

  12. Example C • Segmenting Words into Sounds - Separate Segmenting 1. We’re going to say the sounds in a word. 2. Fist in the air. Put up one finger for each sound. 3. The word is sat. What word? sat 4. First sound? /sss/ Next sound? /aaa/ Last sound? /t/ 5. (If time permits, check individual students.) (Practice: fan, fast, shop, with)

  13. Decoding - What? • The ability to utilize letter- sound (phoneme-grapheme) associations and structural elements to determine the pronunciation.

  14. Decoding - What? • Letter-sound associations √ Consonant and vowel letters √ Consonant combinations including: - blends - digraphs √ Vowel combinations including: - digraphs - diphthongs - r-controlled vowels • Decoding of regular, single syllable words

  15. Decoding - What? • Structural elements including: √ Inflectional endings √ Prefixes √ Suffixes • Decoding of multisyllabic words • Reading of irregular words in which letters don’t represent most common sounds • Reading decodable text

  16. Decoding Instruction - progression • Associating letters and sounds. • Blending sounds into words. • Reading words to build fluency. • Segmenting and spelling words. • Reading decodable text.

  17. Letter-Sound Associations - Why? • English is an alphabetic language. • Students with letter-sound associations perform better. (Juel, 1991) • Students benefit from early, systematic introduction to letter-sound associations.“Phonics instruction provides the biggest impact on growth when begun in kindergarten or first grade before children have learned to read independently.” (National Reading Panel, 2000) • Good readers rely primarily on the letters in a word rather than context or pictures to identify/pronounce familiar and unfamiliar words. (Ehri, 1994)

  18. Letter-Sound Associations - How? • Utilize a well-organized, systematic sequence to introduce the most common letter-sound associations. • Easy to difficult. (Example: single vowel letters before digraphs) • High frequency before low frequency letter-sound associations. (Example: m, a, f BEFORE j, x and z) • Separate easily confused letter-sound associations. (Example: e and i, n and m, b and d) • Provide explicit instruction (rather than implicit instruction) to introduce letter-sound associations. • Differentiate between continuous and stop sounds.Continuous Sounds - Stop Sounds -

  19. Letter-Sound Associations - How • Teach letter-sound associations to a high level of mastery. • Provide cumulative review. • Brief Introduction - Eternal Review

  20. Example Teaching Letter-Sound Associations sat 1. (Point to example word.) This word is sat . 2. (Point to the underlined grapheme.) This sound is /aaaa/. 3. What sound? /aaaa/ OR a 1. (Point to the isolated grapheme.) This sound is /aaaa/. 2. Say the sound with me. /aaaa/ 3. What sound? /aaaa/

  21. Decoding of regular words - Why? • Decoding is necessary though not sufficient for comprehension. “There is no comprehension strategy powerful enough to compensate for the fact you can’t read the words.”(Archer, 2008) • Ability to blend individual sounds into recognizable words is a critical component of reading.(Beck, 2006)

  22. Decoding of regular words - Why? • That direct instruction in alphabet coding facilitates early reading acquisition is one of the most well established conclusions in all of behavioral science.(Stanovich, 1994) • “Systematic phonics instruction produced significantly greater growth than non-phonics instruction in younger children’s reading comprehension.”(National Reading Panel, 2000)

  23. Decoding of regular words - Why? • The first grader decoding ability continues to be a major factor in comprehension as students progress through the grades.(The Connecticut Longitudinal Study) • Poorly developed word recognition skills are the most pervasive and debilitating source of reading challenges.(Adams, 1990; Perfetti, 1985; Share & Stanowich, 1995) • The ability to decode long words increases the qualitative differences between good and poor readers.(Perfettti, 1986)

  24. Decoding of Regular Words - How? • As soon as a sound is learned, incorporate the sound into words. • Model blending of sounds into words. • Provide an adequate amount of practice on decoding words to build word fluency. • Preteach difficult to pronounce words before passage reading.

  25. Decoding Strategy for Short Words 1. Say the sounds. 2. Say the sounds fast. 3. Say the word. 4. Ask yourself Is it a real word? Does it make sense?

  26. Example A - Sound by Sound Blending Sounding Out VC, CVC, CVCC, CCVC words mom top shop dot 1. (Write the first letter on the board.)What sound? 2. (Write the second letter on the board.)What sound? 3. (Move your hand under the two letters.)Blend it. 4. (Write the third letter.)What sound? 5. (Move your hand under the letters.)Blend the sounds. 6. What word?

  27. Example B - Continuous Blending (Modeling) Sounding Out VC, CVC, CVCC, CCVC wordssip fit lip tip rim 1. When I touch a letter, I’ll say its sound. I’ll keep saying the sound until I touch the next letter. I won’t stop between sounds. 2. My turn to sound out this word.(Touch under each letter and say the sound. Hold continuous sounds. Say stop sounds quickly. Don’t stop between sounds.) 3. Sound out this word with me.(Touch under each letter.) 4. Your turn. Sound out this word by yourselves.(Touch under each letter.) 5. What word?(Glide your finger under the word.)

  28. Example B - Continuous Blending (Guided Practice) Sounding Out VC, CVC, CVCC, CCVC words 1. Sound out the word. (Touch under each letter.) 2. What word? (Glide your finger under the word.)

  29. Example C Sounding Out Words with Letter Combinations rain train paint sail seal Precorrection Procedure 1. (Point to the underlined letters.) What sound? 2. (Point to the word.) What sound? 3. (Have students reread the list without the precorrection.) 4. (Have individual students read the words or have them read the words to their partner.)

  30. Example D - CVCE words - Sound Blending like mine fit fine 1. (Point to the first letter.) What sound? 2. (Point to the vowel and final e.) What sound? 3. (Point to the consonant.) What sound? 4. (Glide finger under the word.) Blend it. 5. What word?

  31. Example E - Decoding Words with Onset Rime 1. (Point to rime.)What part? an 2. Get ready to read words that end with an. 3. (Point to new word.) What word? ran 4. (Point to next word.) What word? fan 5. (Continue with additional word.) man Stan tan pan fan plan ban can Jan • Note: Reading “word families” is an excellent way to build word reading fluency. Practice the “word family” until students are very fluent. Use choral reading and partner reading.

  32. High frequency rimes (phonograms) -at -ell -it -ot -ug -an -eat -in -op -ump -ap -est -ill -ock -unk -ack -ip -oke -uck -ail -ice -ore -ain -ine -ake -ide -ale -ick -ame -ing -ash -ink -ate -ight -aw -ay

  33. Decoding - Providing Additional Practice and Cumulative Review #1 Encoding/Spelling: On a daily basis, dictate words that students have sounded out. a) Teacher says the word. b) Teacher says the word in a sentence. c) Students repeat the word. d) Teacher and students put up one finger for each sound in the word. OR Teacher and students put up one finger for each part of the word. e) Students say the sounds/parts to themselves as they write the word.Feedback f) Teacher writes the word on the board or overhead. Students compare their word to model. g) If a student has made an error, the student crosses out the word and rewrites the word.

  34. Decoding - Providing Additional Practice and Cumulative Review #2 Word Transformations a) Provide a “starter word”. Have students write it on their slate. b) Say another word that is one letter different than previous word. Have students form the new word. • Continue dictating a progression of words, each word different from the previous word by one letter by inserting, substituting, or deleting. at, hat, bat, sat, sit, pit, it, in, an, fan, tan

  35. Decoding - Providing Additional Practice and Cumulative Review • name safe take • same Sam pane • mate pan rack • rake mat flame • gate cane can

  36. Decoding - Providing Additional Practice and Cumulative Review # 3 Games/Activities requiring little preparation Ten Second Rapid Read After a list of words has been read, have one student whisper-read words for 10 seconds to his/her partner. As the student reads, the partner counts the number of words read. Have students switch roles. Team Read Divide the students into teams having the same number of “Players”. Have the students line up. When you say go, have students read the words in order. When they complete the list, have them raise their hands. First team done is the winner.

  37. Decoding - Providing Additional Practice and Cumulative Review # 3 Games/Activities requiring little preparation Cross-out Game Have students circle three words on his/her word list. Be sure that the students do not show classmates their circled words. Read any word from the word list. Have students locate and cross out the word. Continue reading words from the list in random order. The winner of the game is the person whose circled words are crossed out first.

  38. Decoding Strategy for Long Words 1. Say the parts. 2. Say the parts fast. 3. Say the word. 4. Ask yourself Is it a real word? Does it make sense?

  39. Decoding of Multi-syllabic words • Rather than using rigid, rule-directed syllabication to divide words into parts, students are taught to recognize the parts in a flexible manner. (Archer et al. 2003, 2006; Bhattacharya & Ehri, 2004) • Putting words into “decodable chucks” using prefixes, suffixes, and vowels should be stressed.(Archer et al. 2006)

  40. Example A Decoding of Multisyllabic Words (Loop, Loop, Loop Strategy) (Preparation: Segment the word into decodable chunks. Be sure that prefixes and suffixes are separate parts. Draw loops to segment the words.)instruction commitment remarkable 1. (Move finger under the first part.)What part? 2. (Repeat for remaining parts.) 3. (Move finger quickly under the parts.) What part? What part? What part? 4. What word? 5. Is that a real word?

  41. Fluency - What? • The ability to effortlessly read words accurately and quickly. • The ability to read connected text accurately with appropriate rate and expression (prosody).(Judson, Mercer, & Lane, 2000)

  42. Fluency - Why? • Fluency is related to reading comprehension.(Cunningham & Stanovich, 1998; Fuchs, Fuchs, & Maxwell, 1988; Jenkins, Fuchs, Espin, van den Broek, & Deno, 2000) • When students read fluently, decoding requires less attention. Attention can be given to comprehension.(Samuels, Schermer, &Reinking, 1992) • National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that nearly half of American 4th graders had not achieved a minimal level of fluency in their reading, which was associated with significant difficulties in comprehension when reading silently.(Pinnell et al., 1995)

  43. Fluency - Why? • Laborious decoding and low fluency results in little reading. (Moats, 2001) • An accurate, fluent reader will read more. (Cunningham & Stanovich, 1998; Stanovich, 1993) • The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. (Stanovich, 1986 )

  44. Fluency - Why? • The prosody component of fluency (expression and phrasing) directly connects to comprehension.(Dowhower, 1987, 1991; Schreiber, 1980, 1987, 1991; Schreiber & Read, 1980) Accuracy Rate - Quick and Automatic Expression Comprehension

  45. Fluency - How? PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE and more PRACTICE

  46. Fluency Procedure #1. Provide extensive reading practice. Utilize procedures such as augmented silent reading, choral reading, cloze reading, and partner reading. Procedure #2. Encourage wide independent reading. Procedure #3. Provide repeated reading practice at the word level. When reading word lists, have students reread word lists until competent. Procedure #4. Utilize repeated reading exercises in passages to increase fluency. (Chard et.al, 2002)

  47. Fluency - How? • Use reading procedures in class that promote maximum practice for all students (e.g., choral reading, cloze reading, partner reading). • (See Example Passage Reading Procedures)

  48. Passage Reading - Silent Reading Silent Reading (Or Whisper Reading) • Pose pre- reading question. • Tell students to read a certain amount and to reread material if they finish early. • Monitor students’ reading. Have individuals whisper-read to you. • Pose post-reading question.

  49. Passage Reading - Echo Reading • Echo Reading • Teacher reads a word, phrase or sentence. • Students “echo” read the word, phrase or sentence. • Useful for building fluency and expression. • Needs to be faded as students grow in reading skills.

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